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Am 09/19/2011 01:59 PM, schrieb Rob Weir:
> 2011/9/19 Jürgen Schmidt<jogischmidt@googlemail.com>:
>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Rob Weir<robweir@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>>> If you haven't looked it closely, it is probably worth a few minutes
>>> of your time to review our incubation status page, especially the
>>> items under "Copyright" and "Verify Distribution Rights". It lists
>>> the things we need to do, including:
>>>
>>> -- Check and make sure that the papers that transfer rights to the
>>> ASF been received. It is only necessary to transfer rights for the
>>> package, the core code, and any new code produced by the project.
>>>
>>> -- Check and make sure that the files that have been donated have been
>>> updated to reflect the new ASF copyright.
>>>
>>> -- Check and make sure that for all code included with the
>>> distribution that is not under the Apache license, we have the right
>>> to combine with Apache-licensed code and redistribute.
>>>
>>> -- Check and make sure that all source code distributed by the project
>>> is covered by one or more of the following approved licenses: Apache,
>>> BSD, Artistic, MIT/X, MIT/W3C, MPL 1.1, or something with essentially
>>> the same terms.
>>>
>>> Some of this is already going on, but it is hard to get a sense of who
>>> is doing what and how much progress we have made. I wonder if we can
>>> agree to a more systematic approach? This will make it easier to see
>>> the progress we're making and it will also make it easier for others
>>> to help.
>>>
>>> Suggestions:
>>>
>>> 1) We need to get all files needed for the build into SVN. Right now
>>> there are some that are copied down from the OpenOffice.org website
>>> during the build's bootstrap process. Until we get the files all in
>>> one place it is hard to get a comprehensive view of our dependencies.
>>>
>>
>> do you mean to check in the files under ext_source into svn and remove it
>> later on when we have cleaned up the code. Or do you mean to put it
>> somehwere on apache extras?
>> I would prefer to save these binary files under apache extra if possible.
>>
>
>
> Why not just keep in in SVN? Moving things to Apache-Extras does not
> help us with the IP review. In other words, if we have a dependency
> on a OSS module that has an incompatible license, then moving that
> module to Apache Extras does not make that dependency go away. We
> still need to understand the nature of the dependency: a build tool, a
> dynamic runtime dependency, a statically linked library, an optional
> extensions, a necessary core module.
>
> If we find out, for example, that something in ext-sources is only
> used as a build tool, and is not part of the release, then there is
> nothing that prevents us from hosting it in SVN. But if something is
> a necessary library and it is under GPL, then this is a problem even
> if we store it on Apache-Extras,
>
>
>>
>>>
>>> 2) Continue the CWS integrations. Along with 1) this ensures that all
>>> the code we need for the release is in SVN.
>>>
>>> 3) Files that Oracle include in their SGA need to have the Apache
>>> license header inserted and the Sun/Oracle copyright migrated to the
>>> NOTICE file. Apache RAT (Release Audit Tool) [2] can be used to
>>> automate parts of this.
>>>
>>> 4) Once the SGA files have the Apache headers, then we can make
>>> regular use of RAT to report on files that are lacking an Apache
>>> header. Such files might be in one of the following categories:
>>>
>>> a) Files that Oracle owns the copyright on and which should be
>>> included in an amended SGA
>>>
>>> b) Files that have a compatible OSS license which we are permitted to
>>> use. This might require that we add a mention of it to the NOTICE
>>> file.
>>>
>>> c) Files that have an incompatible OSS license. These need to be
>>> removed/replaced.
>>>
>>> d) Files that have an OSS license that has not yet been
>>> reviewed/categorized by Apache legal affairs. In that case we need to
>>> bring it to their attention.
>>>
>>> e) (Hypothetically) files that are not under an OSS license at all.
>>> E.g., a Microsoft header file. These must be removed.
>>>
>>> 5) We should to track the resolution of each file, and do this
>>> publicly. The audit trail is important. Some ways we could do this
>>> might be:
>>>
>>> a) Track this in SVN properties. So set ip:sga for the SGA files,
>>> ip:mit for files that are MIT licensed, etc. This should be reflected
>>> in headers as well, but this is not always possible. For example, we
>>> might have binary files where we cannot add headers, or cases where
>>> the OSS files do not have headers, but where we can prove their
>>> provenance via other means.
>>>
>>> b) Track this is a spreadsheet, one row per file.
>>>
>>> c) Track this is an text log file checked in SVN
>>>
>>> d) Track this in an annotated script that runs RAT, where the
>>> annotations document the reason for cases where we tell it to ignore a
>>> file or directory.
>>>
>>> 6) Iterate until we have a clean RAT report.
>>>
>>> 7) Goal should be for anyone today to be able to see what work remains
>>> for IP clearance, as well as for someone 5 years from now to be able
>>> to tell what we did. Tracking this on the community wiki is probably
>>> not good enough, since we've previously talked about dropping that
>>> wiki and going to MWiki.
>>>
>>
>> talked about it yes but did we reached a final decision?
>>
>> The migrated wiki is available under http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki and can
>> be used. Do we want to continue with this wiki now? It's still not clear for
>> me at the moment.
>>
>> But we need a place to document the IP clearance and under
>> http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/ApacheMigration we have already some
>> information.
>>
>
> This is not really sufficient. The wiki is talking about module-level
> dependencies. This is a good star and useful for the high level
> discussion. But we need to look file-by-file. We need to catch the
> case where (hypothetically) there is a single GPL header file sitting
> in a core OOo source directory. So we need to review 100,000's of
> files. Too big for a table on the wiki.
If you think in files than yes, it's too big.
But when you split this up into the application modules and submodules
and sub-sub-modules, then different people can work in parallel when
it's known who is working in what module.
IMHO this should work and there is always an actual and current overview.
Marcus
> Note also that doing this kind of check is a per-requisite for every
> release we do at Apache. So agreeing on what tools and techniques we
> want to use for this process is important. If we do it right, the
> next time we do a review it will be very fast and easy, since we'll be
> able to build upon the review we've already done. That's why I think
> that either using svn properties or scripts with annotated data files
> listing "cleared" files is the best approach. Make the review process
> be data-driven and reproducible using automated tools. It won't
> totally eliminate the need for manual inspection, but it will: 1) Help
> parallelize that effort, and 2) Ensure it is only done once per file.
>
>> Juergen
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -Rob
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] http://incubator.apache.org/projects/openofficeorg.html
>>>
>>> [2] http://incubator.apache.org/rat/